> No, no Rove hasn't been reading lbo-talk. Obama is to the right.
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> Charles
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Rove: " The truth is that Mr. Obama is unwilling to challenge special interests if they represent the financial and political muscle of the Democratic left. He says yes to the lobbyists of the AFL-CIO when they demand card-check legislation to take away the right of workers to have a secret ballot in unionization efforts, or when they oppose trade deals. He won't break with trial lawyers, even when they demand the ability to sue telecom companies that make it possible for intelligence agencies to intercept communications between terrorists abroad. And he is now going out of his way to proclaim fidelity to the educational unions. This is a disappointment since he'd earlier indicated an openness to education reform. Mr. Obama backs their agenda down the line, even calling for an end to testing, which is the only way parents can know with confidence whether their children are learning and their schools working."
Certainly this is a man who knows how to string together cliches. This is why he is a genius -- he articulates the necessary cliches for those who want them at their fingertips and tongue tip.
Emptiness, all we get is emptiness. Emptiness from Obama, emptiness from McCain. Emptiness filling the belly of the young child in the slum and emptiness filling the brain of every Clintonian. The emptiness of no-politics and the emptiness of the nobodaddy of the New York Timesman. The emptiness of the LBObamarama and the emptiness of the Big O of the next bimbo eruption. But most of all the emptiness of the eternal limbo of election year gossip, gossip, gossip.